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What is the difference between please let me know and please tell me ?Feel free to just provide example sentences.
What is the difference between please let me know and please tell me ?Feel free to just provide example sentences.
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"Please tell me" sounds a bit stronger (more commanding) in tone than "please let me know." I would use "please let me know" in more formal situations. For example, "Please let me know when you have received the documents."
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They can be used the same way to mean Please notify me (when something happens).
Please let me know when he arrives.
Please tell me when he arrives.
However, Please tell me is also used to mean Please give me the information (right now), and in these cases, only Please tell me would be used.
Please tell me where you put the car keys.
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"Please tell me" is more likely to be used when someone is pleading for the truth. Imagine a couple where one person is cheating, and their partner knows. The cheater is lieing and denying they cheated but the partner is crying and saying, "Please! Just tell me! Who was it??" In that case 絶対にnotify meを使いません。
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